Nigella: My daughter taught me to be happy
shy child. My way of being quite shy or awkward is that I get quite camp.
“I do realise that and often I am being camp rather than being coquettish. It is not my business to worry about how I am perceived. When I meet readers that is now how they think of me.” Today Nigella is popular pop Down Under thanks to her success as a guest judge ju on the Australian version ve of the TV c ooking ook i s how Masterchef.
She sai said: “The Australian sho show is better. It’s better than tha the other ones. The foo food is better. I have n not watched
t the one here so I am not talking about that but what I notice is that the food is very good and they run it slightly differently. y It seems to me to have a slightly friendlier atmosphere.
“I do like it as I like the he people t here. The e programme has been going for 11 years. They are very funny, Australians. I don’t go to America a great deal. I did for book tours but America ca is a very greedy monster.
“All they ever want to know is ‘What are you going to do d next?’ t?’ and d ‘How much more are you going to do?’
“It is not what I want to do. If I wanted to go and work non-stop and do that I would go there. I like lying about and reading books and drinking tea as well so I don’t want a life which just bec becomes about making television telev programmes.” Critics C believe Nigella has h cracked Australia, but b she said she is taking her new-found success with w a pinch of salt.
She said: “Australians are a quite funny. You have h a laugh on set and it is s omething I understand unde more.”
But Bth she added: d “I would not say I have broken Australia. It makes me sound rather violent.”